Flag burning – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Wed, 06 Dec 2017 04:01:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://i0.wp.com/gregladen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Greg_Ladens_Blog_Favicon_black_GLb.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Flag burning – Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog 32 32 77525483 Trump calls for a year in jail for flag burners https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/11/29/trump-calls-for-a-year-in-jail-for-flag-burners/ https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/11/29/trump-calls-for-a-year-in-jail-for-flag-burners/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:54:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23391 Continue reading Trump calls for a year in jail for flag burners →]]> … and loss of citizenship, which may amount to be thrown out of the country.

Flag burning may be obnoxious to many, but it is a constitutionally protected act, as long as it is your flag and you do it outside.

Presumptive President Elect Donald Trump has called for severe penalties for flag burners:

By the way, if you strip someone of their citizenship, and you do throw them out of the country, it is possible that they will have no way to go or no way to get there. Once they are no longer US citizen, they can be tossed into a special detention facility, and if there are enough of them, well, you’ve got a concentration camp.

I was about to write a post about something else Donald Trump tweeted, but I got distracted by this latest tweet, from just a few minutes ago.

I’ll be back.

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